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By the time the last dozen are yanked from store shelves across the U.S., the Great Egg Recall of 2010 will make one heck of an omelet. But hundreds of millions of salmonella-contaminated ova shouldn’t be all that shocking given the concentration of food production by modern factory farming. Unsanitary, inhumane and bottom line-oriented mass-production methods at a number of these farms yields the mess we’re seeing today.